Dec 26, 2010
And with more features, too. With CES just over a week away, there’s all manner of speculation about what the next round of Android tablet devices may hold. Motorola published a teaser video on You Tube, cleverly showing a brief history of tablets over time, but ending with a not too subtle hint that their tablet will be powered by the Honeycomb...
Dec 26, 2010
Cambridge University in the UK has been asked by the bankers’ trade association in the UK to censor the PHD thesis of one of its students, Omar Choudary, Omar’s thesis attacks the way some technology has been implemented within the banks’ systems, but rather than trying to address the problem at hand – by fixing the bugs – it seems...
Dec 19, 2010
Telstra this week announced that, along with Huawei, it had completed some infrastructure tests that demonstrated downlink speeds over wireless of up to 149Mbps. Using the 1800MHz spectrum during a six month trial, peak speeds of almost 150Mbps were registered. The Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology used during this test is viewed as the major upgrade path for...
Dec 19, 2010
And boy, is this overdue! Nokia are planning a complete rewrite of the Symbian Operatng System. Once the king of mobile phone OSes, Symbian has been under siege of late, first from Apple’s iOS, then Android, and now Windows Phone 7. Due for release in 2011, the changes include a new look and feel for the user interface, a more flexible home screen, an...
Dec 19, 2010
IBM’s Watson Supercomputer will be asking exactly that in February 2011. Starting on St Valentine’s Day, and continuing for three days, Watson will be competing against two of Jeopardy’s super champions in Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. IBM state that it will be donating Watson’s winnings to a charity of its choice.
Dec 19, 2010
In the United States, the military is looking at issuing their troops with mobile phones. A section known as the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) is investigating ways that the Army may be modernised, and that includes the use of gadgets like smartphones, pads, and the like. As well as the more obvious use as a phone, they’re looking at using...